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Open Educational Resources

What are Open Educational Resources?

Open educational resources are materials that are available online for anyone to use. "Open" means the creator has chosen to grant certain uses to anyone, such as distribute and remix their work for free, as long as you credit them for the original work. The  can help you find OERs for your class.

About the Licenses

The key distinction about open resources is their use of an alternative to  called a . Here's a good  to help you get started.

Evaluating Open Textbooks and OERs

Attribution

CC license logos for print and web publications

An application to help you cite open materials, from Open Washington

Find Open Educational Resources

Books

Ebooks

  •  Citations and previews of books and magazines, full text is available if for public domain items

  •  - Full text of over 45,000 free ebooks in the public domain, available to read online or download

  •  - Instructional textbooks that editable by anyone. It is NOT a repository for literature or published texts.

Free Textbooks

  •  - From British Columbia, Creative Commons licensing, available as free ebook or printed books at cost

  •  - Peer-reviewed science and math textbooks, available free online or low-cost print, customizable by instructors

  •  - Peer-reviewed multiple subject textbooks, PDF versions available for free, printed books available at cost

Low Cost Textbooks

  • Boundless - Textbooks in many subjects, optional customization by instructors, all textbooks cost $20.00

  •  - Digital textbooks in many subjects, able to be personalized by instructors, print versions available

Courses and Curricula

Online Courses Available to Everyone

  •  - Free online classes in many subjects, using video lectures, also keeps statistics and earn badges

  •  - Free access to CC BY-licensed classes, which include readings and videos

  •  - Free online courses in math, science and technology

Curriculum for Use by Faculty

  •  - Searchable listings of free online college courses available from U.S. universities and colleges

  •  - Created by Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  •  - Course materials, including syllabi and activities, Creative Commons licensing, from WA State

  •  - Course materials in many subjects, Creative Commons licensing

  •  - Free peer-reviewed online courses in many subjects

OER News and Promotion

  •  - Oregon's OER website for , news, and discussions.

  •  - OER materials for faculty, including , created by WA SBCTC

  •  - Initiative to campaign for and increase awareness of OERs, also has peer-review open textbooks

  •  - UK repository of OERs for higher education

  •  - Worldwide community to advance open education, includes webinars, projects, news and events

  •  - Online community for instructors to plan, use and develop OERs supported by OER Foundation

Other Resources

Images and Video

  •  - Photographs with Creative Commons licenses
  •  - Images in the public domain, available even for commercial use
  •  - Videos of experts in a multitude of fields giving short talks on a given topic

Language and Social Sciences

  •  - Covers many subjects, includes clips from BBC programs

  •  - Learn Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese and Dutch for free online, phone apps available

  •  - Documents, images, maps, sound recordings and more chronicling the American experience

Math

  •  - 2000+ free quizzes to practice science and math
  •  - Open education resources for teaching college math
  •  - Online quizzes, also includes self-study courses for anyone
  •  - Free interactive math simulations, uses Flash and Java, from University of Colorado at Boulder

Science

  •  - 360掳 images of the brain
  •  - Educational resources for teaching science, math, engineering and technology
  •  - Free interactive science simulations, uses Flash and Java, from University fo Colorado at Boulder

Search Engines of Resources and Books

  •  - Access searches for images, music and videos from sites like Fotopedia, ccMixter and SpinXpress

  •  - Seach for various types of resources in many subjects

  •  - Tools, training and support services

  •  - Help with seaching for OERs

  •  - Digital repository of resouces from Florida

  •  - Learning resources and projects, targeted at educators; however, anyone can edit